Lucretia B
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390 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 20 Jul
Lucretia B’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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How many tricks and deceptions in the dealing of the cards?
The opponent
upon its hand is oft times found out by fraud.
Cards are marked so that they may be designated from the back.
Expert gamesters have their accomplices, and one wink may decide the game.
The dice have been found loaded with platina so that doublets come up every time.
These dice are introduced by the gamblers, unobserved by the honest men who have come into the play, and this accounts for the fact that ninety nine out of a hundred who gamble, however, wealthy they began.
At the end are found to be poor, miserable, ragged wretches that would not now be allowed to sit on the doorstep of the house that they once owned.
In a gaming house in San Francisco, a young man having just come from the mines deposited a large sum upon the ace and won twenty-two thousand dollars.
But the tide turns.
Intense anxiety comes upon the countenances of all.
Slowly the cards went forth.
Every eye is fixed.
Not a sound is heard until the ace is revealed favorable to the bank.
There are shouts of foul, foul, but the keepers of the table produce their pistols, and the uproar is silenced, and the bank has won nothing.
ninety five thousand dollars Do you call this a game of chance?
There is no chance about it.
But these dishonesties in the carrying on of the game are nothing when compared with the frauds which are committed in order to get money to go on with the nefarious work.
Gambling with its greedy hat
Hand has snatched away the widow's might and the portion of the orphans, has sold the daughter's virtue to get means to continue the game.
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